Straight from B&W
OK, guys. Here's the straight scoop from a B&W engineer. As I contended in another thread, he said that the Turnover Ball base and Companion FW hitch =system=, carries the vast majority of the pin l...
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Me Again wrote:
To top that off Russ, if the TO hitch was holding up weight, then the hitch would tend to want to turn around on the bed floor. Ask Cummins12V98 why B&W came out with the adjustable spacers to go in the bed valleys under their hitch base? Hint the base was crushing the raised ribs in his bed.
This might help some.
http://www.spaenaur.com/pdf/sectionD/D48.pdf
So many people have a hard time understand this pulling down verses holding up!
Look at the Andersen Ultimate 5th Wheel Connection manual here, were pin #6 and tube #11 go over the ball with the pin under the head of the ball so the hitch can be torqued down to the bed floor. The pin below the head can not hold up anything. The B&W uses the same principal.
https://www.andersenhitches.com/Catalog/installation-manuals.aspx
If you look at this B&W installation manual you will see that the socket post has an elongate hold in it where it is pinned in to the B&W TO ball socket. So when it is torque down the TO ball latch pin is in the bottom of the elongated slot, and can not hold up anything! The OP did not talk to a mechanical or structural engineer.
http://www.turnoverball.com/uploads/EcommerceProductDocumentModel/43/document/rvk3500-08-24-2015.pdf
Chris
The holes in my GN ball and the tube on my Companion are round, not elongated. Yes, I =did= speak to an engineer at B&W.
Lyle
